Now, a leading archaeologist has hailed a 'golden spell' in new discoveries about the Picts, with their everyday world now illuminated like never before given a string of breakthrough finds.

“It looks like this has been an important centre in its time and I think it was a wealthy area, it was a productive area and there was this great track. And tracks are always important in terms ...

THEY have been regarded as one of the lost peoples of history, enigmatic savages who were mentioned by the Romans but left few other traces.

The Picts, a pre-Celtic people, were called Pictii, or Painted, and were known to the Scots as Cruithni. They had a ferocious reputation and according to legend, Rome's Ninth Legion was never ...

Ancient tribes of Picts living in the Scottish highlands developed a form of written language similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics after contact with the more ... Bono doesn't look like this anymore!

A new look at eight skeletons from two Pictish cemeteries reveals that the enigmatic Picts weren't from afar, as medieval historians suggested, but that they had local roots.

Researchers have provided new insights into Scotland's mysterious Picts. The people, known for creating ornately carved symbol stones, left little written material of their own to offer clues on ...

The road to Aberlemno feels like a very old road indeed.. Running alongside the Strathmore Valley, the hills which bound this place speak of the mighty Iron Age forts that lined the ridges, which ...